I have been looking through a long thread on another instance where a few users have been trying to convince that instance to defederate from Exploding Heads - because they do not want to see the content posted on Exploding Heads.
I have thought long and hard about how to please these people. They do have the option to individually block Exploding Heads communities or users, but they either do not know how to or simply do not want to.
In the end I realized if I ban those specific users requesting defederation from Exploding Heads - they will not see any content from Exploding Heads and therefore will not be offended by it. (Truth be told I am not sure if some of these users have really visited our site or interacted with our users).
So today I have banned those users with the explanation that they have said they do not want to see Exploding Heads content. If any of those users wish to be unbanned in the future, all they have to do is say so and I will happily unban them.
These users are not being banned in order to censor them, but to help them achieve what they have been requesting - to not see Exploding Heads content.
I hope you all find this a fair and reasonable action - if not let me know.
I was a 12 year user and they banned me permanently on the 6th, during a blackout, for “harassment”, on a comment that was mild and simply complained about r/politics moderators and shared my true experience of being banned from politics after a decade of use for saying, “only a fool links opinion pieces as evidence.”. Would love to prove it but they removed my comment and I haven’t been able to track it down subsequently.
Anyone have any ideas how to get it? I’d like to send my story to some journalists while Reddit is a hot topic to show they ban long term users who didn’t break rules simply because they don’t like what the user is saying.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/146ovat/comment/jnsj3w0
Sorry to be insensitive, but I don’t think that’s a hot scoop.
I don’t think that’s insensitive. I think claiming a 12 year user is harassing people and permanently banning them, because they complained about subjective moderation, is evidence of how poorly run Reddit is. I don’t need an article about me but it’s damning evidence and can certainly be beneficial to these authors who already are writing about Reddit and have an audience. But I have nothing to share if I can’t get a hold of my comment.